Python Tools for Visual Studio is a new development environment for creating Python applications. It supports both development with CPython, IronPython or any other compatible Python interpreter. It includes great intellisense, an integrated REPL, multi-language solutions, debugging, profiling, and more. It’s being developed with an eye towards creating cluster or cloud based solutions but works great for all kinds of Python development. Combine this with Windows HPC and Windows Azure and you have a fantastic environment for creating and deploying applications at scale. We’ll also be talking the recent work with Enthought to bring NumPy and SciPy to IronPython. Come here about all of this and more of Microsoft’s Technical Computing group’s investments in Python and open source.